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How Samsung platforms are supporting health tech’s toolmakers
Samsung’s inroads into healthcare have taken numerous forms over the years, but often the international electronics company is happy to serve as the technological backbone of its partners’ novel health...
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AliveCor's new interim CEO talks debt funding, remote patient monitoring,...
Smartphone-connected ECG maker AliveCor has officially named an interim CEO, shortly after securing $20 million in debt funding from Oxford Finance. Ira Bahr, the new interim CEO and former chief...
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The consumerization of healthcare: the good, the bad, the baffling
Getting to a doctor’s office for a diagnosis can take days if not weeks — but getting a Google "diagnosis" takes seconds. Accessing information, both accurate and inaccurate, is easy today, opening new...
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Patient data: Who owns it? Who can improve it? What's it worth?
We are living in a time when there is increasingly more data being collected, opening up more opportunities for researchers. As the industry begins to see patients become consumers, the conversation...
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More consumers are using digital health to manage complex health conditions,...
As the adoption of digital health continues to climb among consumers, how customers are using that technology is evolving. Instead of a narrow focus on general health and fitness, users are starting to...
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FDA grants De Novo clearance to interoperable insulin pump
Last week the FDA granted its first marketing authorization to an interoperable insulin pump that is compatible with automated insulin dosing systems, continuous glucose monitors, blood glucose meters...
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Berry Genomics and Prenetics establish Circle DNA; key management hires...
Beijing-headquartered clinical genomics testing company, Berry Genomics and Hong Kong and London-headquartered genetics and digital health company Prenetics announced today key management hires for the...
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Third Eye Neurotech and Newcastle University break fresh ground for people...
Third Eye NeuroTech’s Blue Room immersive virtual reality (VR) technology is in the spotlight following the publication of research which revealed its effectiveness in treating phobias and anxieties...
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Survey: Consumers open to digital psychotherapy treatment, but lean toward...
A survey of 164 US adults published last week in npj Digital Medicine suggests that while many individuals seeking psychotherapy for depression would consider a digital treatment with or without...
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Samsung adds health-focused smartwatch, fitness tracker to its Galaxy lineup
Today’s Samsung Unpack 2019 event was headlined by a number of new reveals, including its latest smartphones, the Galaxy S10 and the flexible Galaxy Fold; its new in-ear, Bluetooth Galaxy Buds; and the...
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Study suggests new test could diagnose sepsis faster
What happenedResearchers at a university in Scotland have developed a test that they say could save thousands of lives by diagnosing sepsis in two and a half minutes, faster than existing methods,...
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Apple’s health strategy: Democratizing health information
It’s fair to say thatApple isn’t just dipping its toe into healthcare anymore. This past year the company announcedits first two FDA clearances including a De Novo clearance for a built-in Apple Watch...
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Hygieia's cloud-based insulin titration app wins 510(k) clearance
Earlier this month, Hygieia’s d-Nav Insulin Guidance Service — an app that titrates insulin doses for individual Type 2 diabetes patients, regardless of their regimen type — received 510(k) clearance...
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How cardiologists say you should — and shouldn't — use Apple Watch ECG
With the addition of FDA clearances for the ECG sensor and irregular heart rate algorithm, the Apple Watch is now technically a medical device. But it is still primarily a consumer product, and its...
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Apple will add sleep tracking to Watch by 2020, rumors say
Apple is testing sleep tracking functionality for the Apple Watch and, if all goes well, intends to add it to the wearable by 2020, according to a report from Bloomberg. Citing anonymous sources,...
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New update brings fall detection, alerts to Livio AI connected hearing aid
Alongside its artificial intelligence coach, Apple Health and Google Fit integrations, activity-tracking sensors and language translation functionalities, the Livio AI connected hearing aid has a new...
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Fitabase inks integration deal to make Dexcom data available to researchers
Researchers who use Fitabase to capture data from Fitbit and Garmin devices will soon be able to capture a new kind of data: continuous glucose monitoring data from Dexcom products.The ability to...
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CardioComm gets FDA nod for smartphone app, new ECG device
Toronto-based CardioComm, a longtime player in the handheld personal ECG space will finally make data available on consumers' smartphones with a new 510(k) clearance for its GEMS Mobile smartphone app,...
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Boston Scientific, Google's contest winners highlight patient engagement,...
Patient engagement and purposeful data implementation were common discussion points during the finals of a digital health pitch competition held last night inside Google’s Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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Microsoft finally puts an end to its Health Dashboard
Microsoft announced that come the end of May it is shutting down its Health Dashboard and offering refunds to Microsoft Band users. This news comes two and a half years after the tech giant...
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